The Assault Against Emergency Workers Awareness Course is available as a condition for:
It is suitable for’ Assault a constable in the execution of his / her duty’ offences as well as the offence of ‘Assault Emergency Worker’.
For Summary only offences please not Sergeant or Hate Crime Coordinators authority is required. For either-way offences please note Inspectors authority is required. (ie Section 47 Assault) Please refer to DPP guidance for more information.
What does the programme involve?
The Assault Against Emergency Workers Awareness Course (AAEW) is delivered by the course facilitator and a co facilitator to the offender, to ensure that they are given the opportunity to speak about the incident. The course can be delivered in person or online and is approximately two hours in length.
Prior to the course delivery, contact will be made with the victim to find out how they have been affected by the offence, to take their thoughts and any questions to the offender as part of the course. In addition, all victims will be offered the opportunity to engage in the Restorative Justice process.
Whilst the AAEW course can be delivered, even if the victim has not consented to their details being passed on to Restorative Solutions, it is evident that the impact on delivering a generic victim awareness course, will not have the same impact, as it would if the focus ofthe course, is on the actual victim, and the impact that the offence had on them. It is important that offenders recognise the impact of their actions, and so if we do not have victim engagement, there is a statement that will be read out to the offender from WYP Chief Constable.
Both courses are based around a PowerPoint presentation (with videos) which promotes discussion.
The first part covers information about the offence (e.g. the law being broken, statistics for West Yorkshire and discussion around whether the offender understands why they have been given the condition to attend the course). The offender is shown a video which looks at the impact of similar offences on others, and this includes two WYP victims who were assaulted in the execution of their duties, and who went through RJ. This provides an opportunity for the offender to consider how their offence could impact their victim.
The second part looks at the offence and the offender is given the opportunity to talk about what happened, the impact of the offence on those involved/connected, triggers and behaviours and how things could have been done differently.
Finally, we look at restorative justice – what this involves, what the victims’ views are, the benefits of RJ and whether the offender is willing to engage.
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